"communication goes both ways..."

I think all humans around the world have felt the need to communicate...

By "communicate" I don't mean just talking and looking for someone to hear, I mean expressing and being willing to listen what others need to say. Real communication goes both ways, listening to others and expressing ourselves. But how many of us really communicate nowadays? How many of us are willing to care about anything others want to say? To learn and to accept advice?

We were meant to be sociable, to interact with each other, to express our feelings and wishes and to listen to others' feelings; nevertheless, we're so afraid of talking most of the time and we're even more frightened to listen.

But why is it so hard to communicate? If communicating is natural how come most of us be so stupid at it? Why are we so reluctant? And when we try it, why can't we pick the right time or the right set of words to exactly say what we need to say??? I don't really have an answer for that, all I can do is think of all the times I haven't said the right words; Have you ever felt like that?

I think this innate need of communicating found its way in modern blogs, for they are definitely based on sharing thoughts, feelings and all kinds of comments about anything. Blogs are a good chance of practising our communication skills, needless to say, so necessary at present.

Writing about communication made me think of how different everything would be if we tried listening once in a while and if we just tried saying whatever is in our hearts.

I'm just putting out my words, hoping to communicate and willing to make a difference.

Thank you for reading and leaving any comments.

mar